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by edderly 5y ago
Don't you think the TL;DR is never add your own syscalls when implementing your own character device driver is almost always the better option if you want something to run in the kernel?
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by edderly 5y ago
Whatever you say, at least it was to the point rather than making vague hand wavy allegations of malfeasance.
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by edderly 5y ago
I don't want Amazon to define Rust but I want my pal to define it doesn't exactly sound like a solid argument. Is there any more meat on the bone here?
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by edderly 5y ago
Congratulations. Although it is easy to have reservations about the concept and rollout of Clubhouse. From a developer perspective it is pretty cool.
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by edderly 5y ago
I think you make a mistake by treating homeless people as an homogenous group. See: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alexander-the-gr... "ALEXANDER THE GRATE: So, one thing about food insecurity — every
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by edderly 5y ago
I didn't use xor :)
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by edderly 5y ago
I have no strong opinions on this, but for background, there are a bunch of Silicon Valley types like Eric Weinstein (Thiel Capital) who maintain that there are sinister undertones to the growing influence of Chinese immigrants in Tech and
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by edderly 5y ago
The way I read the article is that it talks about management performance not performance of the team being managed. These two things are regularly conflated.
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by edderly 5y ago
First you need Software Developers to believe and trust in your management. I find it surprising how many companies do not include developers in manager hire interviews.
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by edderly 5y ago
I suspect the author is misapplying the more direct expression: "I'm being kept in the dark and fed shit" Which applies to a lot of dis-functional workplaces.
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by edderly 5y ago
Unfortunately Graham provides no data or references to back up his claims that the iconic figures I mentioned worked hard or whether that was a factor. My criticism is that there is a risk about putting yourself or your buddies (I assume Co
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by edderly 5y ago
Sure, but I would expect enough self reflection to indicate a logarithmic scale is being used.
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by edderly 5y ago
I find the mentions of Messi, Newton, Mozart and Wodehouse bizarre. The essay is similar to Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour theory, whether you agree or not, at worst Gladwell is writing a journalistic think piece. Here though, is Graha
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by edderly 5y ago
Bingo. Video conferencing meets the uncanny valley.
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by edderly 5y ago
Decide who you're negotiating with. Is it your manager or is it the company or organization? There could be differences in opinion depending on who you ask. Do not bother talking to HR. Ask for feedback on your performance while workin
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by edderly 6y ago
Richard Garriott also took some of James Doohan's ashes to the ISS at the same time as his trip up there. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ashes-of-star-treks-scott...
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by edderly 6y ago
"Chronicle's system is built in what Lawrey describes as "C-like Java" and it's this that he encourages people to code low latency systems in. " Does anyone have any guidelines for this type of code?
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by edderly 6y ago
I agree with the general sentiment here, but ARM is not exactly Snow White. It's an open secret that ARM was (and still is) selling the CPU design at a discount if you integrated their Mali (GPU). This isn't relevant to Nvidia tod
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by edderly 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar... "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection." I'm extremely skeptical that this solves any particular problem ot
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by edderly 7y ago
Good discussion here. It sounds like some IF studies have had positive effects even if the participants are taking black coffee, however, the caveat is that they don't know whether not having black coffee would be more beneficial. htt
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by edderly 7y ago
It's quite an interesting accent, definitely not British, more Mid-atlantic but you still get the east European burr.
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by edderly 10y ago
> He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon. Perth and the Dunfermline site are roughly 30 miles ap
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by edderly 10y ago
There's a dark or a bright side to this. On the one hand you wonder whether Google will get in a huff and close AOSP (The Android Open Source Project) just to work with a few commercial vendors. They can leave the complainants to work
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by edderly 10y ago
wsj.com Why I’m Investing $500 Million in Migrants George Soros Sept. 20, 2016 12:00 a.m. ET The world has been unsettled by a surge in forced migration. Tens of millions of people are on the move, fleeing their home countries in search of
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by edderly 10y ago
The Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif., Sept. 11. Photo: Brian Molyneaux/The Wall Street Journal By Andy Kessler Sept. 16, 2016 6:21 p.m. ET 197 COMMENTS Palo Alto, Calif. The capital of Silicon Valley is ready to abdi
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My cofounder said “I love what we’re doing” and we shut down our startup(entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com)
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by edderly 10y ago
It's been tried and the problem is that you end up with slums. http://www.victorianweb.org/history/slums.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_of_London
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by edderly 10y ago
Excellent, I look forward to trying this out!
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by edderly 10y ago
Thanks for sharing, do you still see runtime performance benefits when ART is used or just compilation / dex2oat perf improvement?
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by edderly 11y ago
Full disk encryption isn't really that much of a big deal for the average user on a lot of modern mobile SoCs. The messaging of this is a lot worse than the security implication in practice. Full disk encryption doesn't protect yo

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